Profiling of N6-Adenosine (m6A) Methylation in HepG2 cells

N6-methyladenosine (m6A) modification is the most abundant internal RNA modification in eukaryotes. Recent studies have shown that the dynamic and reversible regulation of m6A modifications in mRNAs or non-coding RNAs plays critical roles in tissue development, stem cell self-renewal and differentiation, control of heat shock response, and circadian clock controlling, as well as in RNA metabolism and processing. METTL14 is a major m6A writer which together with METTL3 forms the core of the methyltransferase complex that catalyzes the conversion of adenosine (A) to m6A. To investigate the effect of METTL14 on m6A modfication, we performed m6A-seq in HepG2 cells with stably expressed shRNAs against METTL14 (shMETTL14) or non-specific control shRNA (shNS). Overall design: m6A-seq in HepG2 cells with stably expressed shMETTL14 or shNS.